By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
On my old question as to the exact relation between the conceptuality/terminology, etc. required by interrreligious dialogue, on the one hand, and metaphysics-ethics, on the other:
Isn't the relation that between philosophy of religion, on the one hand, and metaphysics-ethics, on the other?
If philosophy of religion is understood as logical analysis of the "deep structure," or logical kind of meaning, proper to religion; and if such interpretation, as much as any other, requires not only interpreting by asking a certain kind of question, but also rendering the interpretandum into some appropriate interpretans, then it should be able to provide everything necessary to interreligious dialogue, including not only the appropriate conceptuality/terminology in which to conduct it, but also what is to count in principle as the criterion for adjudicating different religious claims to truth. But to determine what is to count in fact as that criterion requires going beyond the philosophy of religion to metaphysics-ethics.
23 November 2005
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